Notes for week 4 of 2022

I continued to be submerged into DDD with a lot of longer-term planning conversations on the side. I got involved in hiring and will welcome a new engineer into my team. As a side effect, I got exposed to the hiring process and I am trying hard not to try to redo it from the ground.

I used to have busy Mondays, having all of the plannings and 1-1s there. Now I have converged to have the same on Friday and I can’t tell if it’s better or worse. My team is also done with a release–but waiting for external dependencies. I realized how I have harder times when public release is more decoupled from “development complete”.

I still run on a limited writing capacity and yes, it’s still annoying.

I realized Google announced the removal of free GSuite and it sent me down the rabbit hole of how I want to redesign the digital life.

Kudos of the week goes to IKEA for flawless replacement service.

Random

• mizu is neat, if you are unfortunate enough to use Kubernetes
• Mermaid diagrams will be directly embeddable and displayable on GitHub
• mob, an interesting tool for mob programming
• NTFs are still perfect
• yq, a jq for YAML
• I’ve walked 14 km. I’ve been active for 5.9 hours during 8 activities. This week’s max speed was 11.0 km/h and I conquered 290 elevation meters.

Recommended Readings From This Week

• The Great Switch: distributed work first: …unless pushback from the nations
• Uber’s Crazy YOLO App Rewrite, From the Front Seat: Wow. Can’t decide if impressive or clusterfuck
• Files are fraught with peril: Good intro into why file writing is hard
• Bidirectional Relations Between Parenting and Behavior Problems From Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries - PubMed — seems like children have more effect on their relationship with parents than the parents on their upbringing